Lkdog
Power User
Have been a fan of the late great urban jazz/blues guitarist (former rock icon also) Jeff Golub for years.
I am struggling to get his basic studio tone in which he generally uses a Vibrolux and various guitars- mostly semi hollows and some hollow and solid bodies.
It always sounds clean, warm, and has some sweet mild sustain.
I think I read somewhere where he used a tube pedal of some sort to warm things up, but his tone was always great.
Any help is appreciated on settings or pedals, etc.
Here is example of a typical Golub song.
On his webpage it states that he used a Vibrolux and Es 175 for that cut- but there has to be more going on there.
http://www.jeffgolub.com/equipment.html
On tour I quite often have to rent amps so I request in order of preference a Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier "Tremoverb" or a Fender "Hot Rod Deville" then use whatever is available.
For effects I use a pro-co rat pedal, a boss tuner pedal, an "Echodrive" (which is an analog delay built with tube circuitry) a boss digital delay pedal, and a Shure wireless unit . In the studio I use an older model (script logo)MXR dynocomp compressor pedal most of the time (not on the fat hollow body guitars)and occasionally a rat pedal but rarely record with effects other than that.
I usually use a fender vibroking amp through a boogie 1-12 cabinet with an eminence 70 watt speaker but I have also used a boogie studio 22 and a peavey classic 50. Occasionally I've gone direct into the board with a sans-amp classic pedal.
For guitars I record with the 65' strat, sometimes the Hamer Daytona, a 1959 Gibson ES 345 with a stop tailpiece wired mono with the varitone disconnected, a 1959 Gibson ES 175 with just1 pickup (humbucking, neck position), a 1964 Gibson L-5, a 1964 Martin O-18, a Rimerez nylon string and a Takamine nylon string.
I am struggling to get his basic studio tone in which he generally uses a Vibrolux and various guitars- mostly semi hollows and some hollow and solid bodies.
It always sounds clean, warm, and has some sweet mild sustain.
I think I read somewhere where he used a tube pedal of some sort to warm things up, but his tone was always great.
Any help is appreciated on settings or pedals, etc.
Here is example of a typical Golub song.
On his webpage it states that he used a Vibrolux and Es 175 for that cut- but there has to be more going on there.
http://www.jeffgolub.com/equipment.html
On tour I quite often have to rent amps so I request in order of preference a Mesa-Boogie Dual Rectifier "Tremoverb" or a Fender "Hot Rod Deville" then use whatever is available.
For effects I use a pro-co rat pedal, a boss tuner pedal, an "Echodrive" (which is an analog delay built with tube circuitry) a boss digital delay pedal, and a Shure wireless unit . In the studio I use an older model (script logo)MXR dynocomp compressor pedal most of the time (not on the fat hollow body guitars)and occasionally a rat pedal but rarely record with effects other than that.
I usually use a fender vibroking amp through a boogie 1-12 cabinet with an eminence 70 watt speaker but I have also used a boogie studio 22 and a peavey classic 50. Occasionally I've gone direct into the board with a sans-amp classic pedal.
For guitars I record with the 65' strat, sometimes the Hamer Daytona, a 1959 Gibson ES 345 with a stop tailpiece wired mono with the varitone disconnected, a 1959 Gibson ES 175 with just1 pickup (humbucking, neck position), a 1964 Gibson L-5, a 1964 Martin O-18, a Rimerez nylon string and a Takamine nylon string.
